Penn State Centre Stage presents "To Kill a Mockingbird," Christopher Sergel's stage adaptation based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, April 2–12, at the Playhouse Theatre. The play chronicles the social and racial inequalities of the rural South in 1935 as told through the eyes of a young girl.
On March 20, Ceci Johnson -- founder and creative director of Ceci New York, a lifestyle brand that is globally regarded as a leader in creating luxurious event invitations -- visited the Stuckeman School to talk about how she went from an entry-level web designer in New York to an in-demand invi
Penn State Centre Stage will launch its return to professional summer theatre with "One Night on Broadway," a special benefit event, on May 20 at the Penn State Downtown Theatre. The evening will include wine, hors d'oeuvres, desserts, and current Broadway/Penn State alumni performers, featuring Matthew Hydzik ("The Cher Show"), Allyson Kaye Daniel ("Elf, the Musical"), Ryan Vona ("Once"), Natalie Weiss ("Les Misérables"), Alan Wiggins ("Beautiful"), and more.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Harrisburg Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution honored Ruth Matilda Freyberger on March 14, with assistance from Marilyn Fox of the Penn State Berks Freyberger Gallery.
Liat Margolis, director of the Master of Landscape Architecture program and assistant dean of research at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, will speak about interdisciplinary design at 6 p.m on March 27 as part of the Stuckeman School’s Lecture and Exhibit Series. The lecture will be held in the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space.
This week's cultural highlights include the return of the Maple Harvest Festival, "Saturday Night Live" comedian Michael Che at Penn State Behrend, the Alumni Association's City Lights in Philadelphia event and a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Three Mile Island at Penn State Harrisburg.
Penn State President Eric J. Barron will highlight how a Penn State undergraduate center explores difficult topics through facilitated dialogue during the next episode of WPSU Penn State’s “Digging Deeper” at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 24, on WPSU-TV.
Penn State Hazleton will host the African art exhibit “From the Heart of Africa – Masks, Fetishes, & More,” beginning Friday, March 22. The exhibit will be complemented by a lecture on African art.
The Reuben and Gladys Golumbic Scholarship Award is one of the most significant awards in the College of Arts and Architecture. This award recognizes undergraduate students who have demonstrated superior design, humanistic, and performance records and who have proven their potential for significant contribution to the arts and humanities.
Due to the temporary inability of one of the artists to perform, the musicians have had to postpone their Center for the Performing Arts presentation of “Night Train 57.” The sensory-friendly comic folk opera presentation, which was scheduled for April 14, has been postponed to April 2020.
From Fayyum mummy portraits to Byzantine icons, and Medieval Italian panel paintings to Medieval painting guides, Esther Wipfler, researcher at Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany, will discuss research that scrutinized common notions about the representation of human complexion over a roughly 1,000-year period.
As a filmmaker and teacher, Pearl Gluck is on a constant search for authenticity. She looks for it in her actors, her students and even her own scripts. It’s not easy, but the assistant professor of film-video in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications says it’s vital for the filmmaking process.
On Wednesday, April 10, the Kassia Ensemble with Mary Bowden will perform one of their first concerts together at Penn State Behrend as part of Music at Noon: The Logan Series. Their concert takes place at noon in McGarvey Commons, in the college’s Reed Union Building.
Curated by Katie Fuller and Larry Ossei-Mensah, the exhibition "Race and Revolution: Still Separate, Still Unequal" debuted in 2017 at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York and is traveling to universities and cultural institutions across the country. The exhibit will be displayed at the Woskob Family Gallery through April 6.
Curtis Craig, associate professor of sound design and head of the Penn State Bachelor of Fine Arts Design and Technology program, will host a meet-and-greet on March 23, immediately following a showing of the play "How To Catch Creation," scheduled to begin at 8 p.m., presented by the Philadelphia Theatre Company at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre.
